Book NewsSutton Foster Has Written a Memoir About Crafting and Healing
By
Dan Meyer
May 28, 2021
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life will arrive on bookshelves this fall.
Sutton Foster
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Somewhere in the middle of filming the final season of Younger and a concert at City Center—and starting rehearsals for The Music Man—Sutton Foster found time to do what the rest of us said we were going to do in the middle of a months-long quarantine: write a book. The two-time Tony winner will release her memoir Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life October 12.
The star has actually been crafting since her early performing days, finding solace in the calming rhythm of a needle and thread. Since then, Foster has expanded her hobby to include cross stitching, crocheting collages, drawing, and more.
Grand Central Publishing says the book will offer funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept Foster sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business—and how it can help readers, too. Accompanying the stories, Sutton has included crochet patterns, recipes, and more.
The book is now available to pre-order; click here for more information.
The Broadway revival of The Music Man, with Foster as Paroo opposite Hugh Jackman's Harold Hill, is due to begin previews at the Winter Garden Theatre December 22.
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A young Sutton Foster starred as Annie with the Augusta Players
Sutton Foster in Les Miserables
Sutton Foster in Les Miserables
Sutton Foster in the company of Grease
Sutton Foster (standing, left) played Star-To-Be and performed in the ensemble of the 1997 revival of Annie
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Megan McGinnis, Amy McAlexander, Jenny Powers, Maureen McGovern and Sutton Foster in Little Women
Maureen McGovern and Sutton Foster in Little Women
The cast of Little Women
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Sutton Foster and cast in The Drowsy Chaperone
Sutton Foster in The Drowsy Chaperone
Sutton Foster in The Drowsy Chaperone
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Roger Bart, Sutton Foster and Christopher Fitzgerald in Young Frankenstein
Sutton Foster and Roger Bart in Young Frankenstein
Sutton Foster and Roger Bart in Young Frankenstein
Leah Greenhaus, Sutton Foster and Marissa O’Donnell in Shrek
Brian d'Arcy James, Daniel Breaker and Sutton Foster in Shrek
Sutton Foster in Shrek
Sutton Foster in Anyone Can Whistle
Sutton Foster and Raúl Esparza in Anyone Can Whistle
Sutton Foster and Raúl Esparza in Anyone Can Whistle
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Sutton Foster (center) in Cole Porter's Anything Goes.
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Sutton Foster and cast in Anything Goes
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Colin Donnell and Sutton Foster in Anything Goes
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Sutton Foster in Violet
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Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry in Violet
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Joshua Henry, Colin Donnell, and Sutton Foster in Violet
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Sutton Foster makes her Carnegie Hall debut March 13, 2015
Sutton Foster makes her Carnegie Hall debut March 13, 2015
Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry at Foster's Carnegie Hall debut March 13, 2015
Sutton Foster and Steven Pasquale
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Sutton Foster and cast
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Brandon Victor Dixon, Steven Pasquale and Sutton Foster
Emily Padgett, Sutton Foster, and Asmeret Ghebremichael
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Sutton Foster and Joel Perez
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Patina Miller, Skylar Astin, and Sutton Foster in Into the Woods
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